Art Attack mused on some of the documents written during an era loosely defined between 1867 (when the machine took off commercially) and 1980-ish (when the word processor began to usurp the once gold standard for putting words to the page). The result is our top five books written during the era, even if it was sculpted in shorthand as a big whatevs to typewriter technology.

5. The Trial/Der Process by Franz Kafka

Posthumously published a year after the German shut-in's death, this 1925 dystopian fiction document owes a tip of the cap to Max Brod, who put the finishing touches on the incomplete manuscript.